Was watching this video on YouTube earlier:

I think this comment sums of my feelings best: “... all I need is the quiet humming of my old 386 Dx 33 and I’m back in my childhood…“

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As I am a self-professed Star Trek geek who jumps at every opportunity to rattle off voluminous amounts of Star Trek minutiae, a lot of my friends have been asking me for my thoughts on the new Star Trek movie. So, here are my neatly-arranged and spell-checked thoughts. Warnings: spoilers and excessive geekiness ahead.

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This weekend, I burst into joyous rapture on two separate occasions listening to two different episodes of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me. Impressive, isn’t it?

First. I was listening to the January 18, 2009 podcast, and during the first segment, the caller was given a trivia question about Ricardo Montablan’s unfortunate recent passing. After the caller answered, Peter Sagal launched into his usual background and banter on Montablan and at one point noted that he played the over-the-top villain in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. At that point, the always-entertaining Charlie Pierce chimed in and noted “and in the Original Series episode Space Seed,” and then almost immediately someone from the crowd shouted “YEAH!!!” in an obvious display intended to both congratulate Pierce for knowing that Montablan appeared in a Star Trek episode, and, of course, show some solidarity among Star Trek fans! Simply awesome. If you want to listen, the segment starts around 7 minutes into the show.

Second. This one is from yesterday’s (January 24, 2009) show. At about 3 minutes and 45 seconds into the show, Sagal notes that he still feels like he’s in a science fiction movie when he says “President Obama.” To demonstrate this feeling, he exclaimed “President Obama promised a strong response to the invasion of the Corellian fleet!” Did you catch it? It’s a reference to Star Wars.

In short, these guys are geeks. What a great show.

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Podcasts are cool. Star Trek is cool. What happens when you combine the two?

You get Simply Syndicated’s Make It So. Make It So (in addition to being Jean-Luc Picard’s famous catch phrase – or is that “engage”?) is basically two British blokes talking Star Trek. Topics range from the best episode from the first season of Star Trek the Next Generation to the best first officer ever. It’s pretty entertaining. Be warned: they swear from time to time.

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The Star Trek community is abuzz over the newly released Star Trek Teaser trailer that is now running with J.J. Abrams’s newest film, Cloverfield. The video is available at the movie’s website:

http://www.paramount.com/startrek/

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